I don't know who in Microsoft designed this. But manypeople would rather see a search result like this:A total of 378 results returned, showing items 1 - 40,sorted by Relevance, grouped by Site. In another word,we like to see the total hits up front, and aconfigurable number of items displayed each time.

We can modify the search results web part property andspecify the maximum number of items to display (Ibelieve the limit is 1000). This helps. But how abouttotal number?

It seems that I have to override the search resultsweb part:Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.SearchResults

Does anyone know what properties are there for me tomodify the result Display Text and the total number ofitems?

The reason that the total hits arenât returned is because it would be resource intensive to get a complete listing. Itâs designed specifically not to get you a complete list. You can override it but you shouldnât.

To know there was a hit, SharePoint actually has to get the hit. It has to actually search through things to get the result. At that point youâve consumed all of the effort of going through the entire list â most people donât go through all of the search results they only go through the first few pages. So walking through the entire catalog set to get 1000 entries when people only use 40 is expensive from a processing perspective.

Most search engines give you ESTIMATES of the number of total hits. Thatâs why it can vary when you start paging through the results.

You can set the window larger and say â¦ âDisplaying 1-40 of over 200 hitsâ in this case you open the window to 200 hits and only display the first 40. If I remember correctly there used to be a UI limit of 200 total results. (It may have been SPS 2001)

The ESTIMATES is exactly what I am looking for. Wheredo you get the ESTIMATES? How would you do that then"Displaying 1-40 of over 200 hits"? Can you configurethat, or have to override the search results web part?

Youâll have to use a tool like Ontolica or code it by hand. The OOB implementation allows you only to control the number of results returned.

BTW â My example was to say that it would only show you to the number of results you requested in my example 200 is not an ESTIMATE of the number of the results, itâs an assurance that there are AT LEAST 200 results because two hundred were brought back from the web service but only the first 40 were displayed.

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